A wild scene, for with outcry wild was mixed Wild gesture; the whole madding multitude Rent off their raiment, and into the air Dust flung in cloud as where a whirlwind roars.
The sun shines bright and warm on a narrow wooden platform between two great barrels, and I can be hidden there, but I can watch the madding crowd as it goes.
The crowd is very madding down around East Boston.
They can not see themadding crowd, but they can enjoy the sunshine and hunt mice among the rubbish.
Arthur Morton had then removed his sister's photograph, and had made his way homeward, stepping aside into the laurel bushes to avoid Mrs. Madding at the gate.
It appeared to her to be unlikely that the doctor would either go to bed or go out leaving so brilliant a light behind him, and it struck Mrs. Madding that it was possible that he might have dropped asleep in his chair.
Lana before Mrs. Madding met Mr. Arthur Morton, then who was this someone, and what motives had he for wishing evil to the doctor?
If this were so then it appeared to be probable that he had met his end between the moment when the housekeeper heard his voice and the time when Mrs. Madding made her first call and found it impossible to attract his attention.
Well, he must come in again," said young Morton, and passed through the gate while Mrs. Madding went upon her homeward way.
As Mrs. Madding emerged from the gate a man was coming along the footpath.
His second book, Under the Greenwood Tree, is a charming love story, and A Pair of Blue Eyes was a forerunner of his first great story, Far From the Madding Crowd.
In taking up Hardy one should begin with Far From the Madding Crowd.
In Far From theMadding Crowd Hardy first demonstrated the tremendous possibilities of rural scenes as a vital background for a story, but in The Return of the Native he actually makes Egdon heath the most absorbing feature of the book.
Hearke how the Romaine drums sound bloud & death, And Mars high mounted on his Thracian Steede: Runs madding through Pharsalias purple fieldes.
The frantike people and impatient, By Anthonyes exhorting to reuenge: 1920 Runne madding throw the bloudy streetes of Rome, Crying Reuenge, and murthering they goe, All those that caused Caesars ouerthrowe.
How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted, In the distraction of this madding fever!
Far from theMadding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, illustrated by the first artist, and A Rose in June, and Black's Three Feathers by the second.
Arms on armor clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd; dire was the noise Of conflict.
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray.
Here grows melampode every where, And terebinth, good for goats; The one my madding kids to smear, The next to heal their throats.
But now from me his madding mind is start, And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen; So now fair Rosalind hath bred his smart; So now his friend is changed for a frenne.
Truly Les Adrets is a retreat far from the madding crowd, where an author or an artist might produce a masterwork if what he needed was only quiet and a change of scene.
To be sure, no one, unless he were an artist attached to the painting of marines, or an author who thought to get far from the madding throng, would ever come here, anyway.
His best novels prior to the appearance of Tess, are The Woodlanders, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, and The Mayor of Casterbridge.
In vain she checks the God's controul; His madding spirit fills her frame, And moulds the features of her soul, Breathing a prophetic flame.
These love not the dhobi, and dwell by preference far from the madding crowd.
I would fain know the name of this vast, madding city," said I, "hath it a better name than great Bedlam?
Ye who exult in madding song The giddy dances treading, Think not that all the mirth of France Can thwart the fate you're dreading.
There the visitor will still find neither poverty nor wealth; there, far from the madding crowd, the angel of peace reigns supreme.
